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<p>Thank you!!! That’s what I was thinking when I was eating my breakfast this morning. But I do think that perfumes sold in spray bottles (the EdT kind) contribute to the problem - people tend to hose themseves with sprays. Two pumps is already too much! I use a dab or two of my EdP, and one has to get really close to me to be able to smell it.</p>
<p>Nothing like Channel!!! Umm.
Howeverr, following the concept of 2010 economical time, I will give a try to Eau de Basile…thanks Cartera45!
I have free resources of Basil in the front and back yard…just a try for the next two days. Will use my husband as guinea pig…without telling him about the experiment.</p>
<p>I will let you know…next week.</p>
<p>I love perfume but some of it gives me a headache. I always try it out on my hand, that way if it bothers me I can wash it off. I agree with, “if you can smell it on yourself you have too much on”. I think that the old classics are less likely to bother people. I think some of the newer scents that use more chemicals rather than natural ingredients create more of a problem for people. I love the idea of the basil. I have always grown herbs, my kids consider basil on of their scents of childhood. I always added it to flower arrangements and most of the summer the house smelled of it.</p>
<p>It is too cold to grow basil yet here- I always grow it with my tomatoes and use it in sandwiches as greens, but never thought of sticking it in my underwear!</p>
<p>I think you could put mint in one cup and basil in the other - and I don’t mean china cups.</p>
<p>Although I love the smell of basil I’m not so sure I want to “smell” like basil LOL.</p>
<p>I can’t stand artificial scents, I find them gross; I have an allergic reaction to enough of them, so it’s probably from association. </p>
<p>I think we’d all be much healthier without them.</p>
<p>Cartera, LOL! Why stop there, thyme in one sock and oregano in the other.</p>
<p>Might as well dab some tomato sauce on your wrists too :)</p>
<p>I have heard of chewing fennel, to freshen your breath & I like the taste of sucking on a clove along with a butterrum livesaver ( from* Only Cowgirls get the Blues*), but while Italian restaurants are supposed to be romantic, I don’t really want to smell like one.</p>
<p>I’m surprised by the virulent anti-perfume crowd here. I apply only enough scent so that if someone hugs or kisses me, they can smell my perfume. It should be close, intimate and understated.</p>
<p>This winter I’ve been wearing Creed “Vanisia,” but I’ll probably switch to Aqua di Parma “Fico di Amalfi” for summer.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t just smell good. Perfume should be a little indulgence every day. It should transport and bring back memories of a wonderful time or experience.</p>
<p>My one happy perfume story: I have never been big on fragrances, but did hit on one in the early '90’s that I liked. Used sparingly (as in the bottle went bad before it was used). Me, sitting on the paper-covered table at the Dr’s office, answering questions about my newly discovered breast cancer. Nurse - “one more thing, are you wearing perfume or whatever, because the doctor asked me to ask you so he could get some for his wife…” Maybe they train the nurses to ask that of everyone, just to make them feel better, but (since the doctor in question looked like a soap opera hero), I’ll go with the “sometimes aromas help us connect” theory…</p>
<p>It shouldn’t just smell good. Perfume should be a little indulgence every day. It should transport and bring back memories of a wonderful time or experience. </p>
<p>When I was a kid, my dad had a business trip to Hawaii (where my parents had met). My mom’s one wish was for a bottle of Royal Hawaiian White Ginger perfume.</p>
<p>Although I used to wear a little scent, I would became very ill from smelling perfume during my first pregnancy. To this day I hate to smell it, especially in a restaurant or anywhere with assigned seating. I really don’t understand why people, men and women, think others want to smell them while eating?</p>
<p>I have become sensitive (sometimes feel sick immediately ) to the smell of most perfumes. I do OK with some of the Burberry and the similar Coach, since they are pretty clean and light. I can do something like Chanel as long as it’s just a tiny drop. I can’t take the heavy, sweet smelling or floral ones - have an immediate reaction to those.</p>
<p>I think it is common for pregnancy to change your sense of smell- this is to protect the fetus so you don’t eat anything odd.
But since my hearing and my eyesight are not so great, my smell seems to be more sensitive- but that means good things smell better- not just bad things smell worse.
( and outside of smells that actually make me hurl- I find I can detect more complexity in smells that ordinarily might just smell bad or not noteworthy)</p>
<p>I don’t like some of the older perfumes- I went to Nordstroms yesterday and they had cut in half their perfume area. The only one I even recognized was Chanel #5, and it smelled strong and like an aunt who wore ultra suede suits. Not really my look.
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<p>^ I wore Chanel #5 in college and loved it except for the time I spilled most of a bottle in the bathroom of my sorority house :)</p>
<p>I don’t wear “perfume” now. I do use Bath & Body works shower gel, lotion and spray in Vanilla (fall/winter) and Pink Grapefruit (spring/summer). They were not selling the latter for awhile, but brought it back and I stocked up. Supposedly the scent of grapefruit makes a person look several years younger. I just like the scent, but I’m almost 53 so I’ll take all the help I can get!</p>
<p>My D wears Pink Grapefruit lotion…when B & B stocks it. Last winter we looked at their stock up sale, but I could only find a few bottles. :(</p>
<p>I like B & B Wild Honeysuckle. I use the shower lotion, spray, and body butter. light and fresh.</p>
<p>Sometimes I have clients that leave heavy scent. I can feel my eyes getting itchy and nose running. I keep Benadryl for those occasions.</p>
<p>I have but don’t use Chanel 5; reminds me of my mom, in a good way.</p>
<p>Perfume irritates me: I either start getting a headache or find myself so aware of the scent that I immediately need to wash it off. I do like the smell of lavender, so I now use lavender bath products, i.e. bubble bath, Johnson’s Baby Powder (lavender and chamomile), and body lotions. (Boots - found at Target - has a couple good lavender body lotions and creams.) Anyway, I find the smell subtle rather than overwhelming - and I vary the product day to day so the lavender scent remains understated.</p>
<p>I occasionally try a perfume at a store, but the end result always seems to be the same. Off … off … off. :(</p>
<p>Slightly off topic, but it always annoys me when a face lotion or cleanser has too strong a scent. I just recently starting using an all purpose face and body moisturizer called Bio-Oil - very light scent and soaks in quickly. It works great for scars and very dry skin. Working with books all day long makes my hands so dry - it soaks in almost immediately and doesn’t feel greasy.</p>